How to Use the mainstream in a Sentence

the mainstream

noun
Definition of the mainstreamnext
  • Over the past few years, ’90s style has returned to the mainstream.
    — Madeleine Aggeler, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • That has long since fallen from the ears of the mass public, of the mainstream.
    — Alan Hernández Pastén, SPIN, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The sudden death of someone who was so new to the mainstream was of course a shock.
    — Paul Grein, Billboard, 20 Sep. 2023
  • But after the boom came the bust, and the garment billowed out of the mainstream in the decades that followed.
    — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 2 Sep. 2023
  • At present, few Black artists rise to the mainstream charts’ highest spots.
    — Danielle Amir Jackson Malike Sidibe, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Yet in recent years, the mainstream seems to be catching up to Owens.
    — Nick Haramis Ola Rindal Dogukan Nesanir, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Trap was heavy, trap music was super heavy in the clubs; the mainstream clubs.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Blues has got to be put back in the mainstream for total survival.
    — Margie Goldsmith, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Suddenly, Carey had stepped out of the mainstream and was now cool.
    — Cliff Joannou, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2023
  • To embrace the split toe is to consciously buck the mainstream.
    — Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • For the first time, the true depth of the Palestinian struggle was thrust onto the mainstream stage.
    — Hoda Sherif, TIME, 10 May 2024
  • Trans women who do try to make it by playing to the mainstream are shut out, too.
    — Frankie De La Cretaz, Them, 10 Oct. 2024
  • But there is no space for Black women like me in the mainstream markets.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
  • As ever, trends are being set by those with the vision to break away from the mainstream.
    — Jill Newman, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2023
  • To live the goth lifestyle is to reject the mainstream and embrace a bit of darkness and melancholy.
    — Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Truman led the mainstream Democrats and carried 28 states.
    — W. Joseph Campbell, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
  • How a fringe claim about immigrants eating pets made it to the mainstream.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2024
  • NFTs have now hit the mainstream, with big names from the music world jumping on the bandwagon.
    — Kim Pham, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Is the mainstream media guilty of trying to cover up Biden’s age?
    — Stephen Stromberg, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
  • So, what happens when a beloved cult brand begins to hit the mainstream zeitgeist?
    — Kerensa Cadenas, ELLE, 10 Aug. 2023
  • And at the end of the day, when people want something, [there’s] nothing the mainstream can really do to stop it.
    — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Tesla was the first company to bring over-the-air software updates to the mainstream.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2023
  • It’s happened with every genre of Black music that’s hit the mainstream.
    — Kate Nelson, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2024
  • By 1980, the extremism of Goldwater had become the mainstream of the GOP.
    — David Conrads, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Even though my career has always maintained in the mainstream, that song just put me right back in the spotlight.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The leotard helps lift star gymnasts into the mainstream.
    — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2024
  • Creed reunited for 2009’s Full Circle, but the industry had changed, the hits had dried up, and the mainstream had moved on.
    — Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 18 July 2024
  • Bridging the gap between the mainstream and luxury markets proves to be a tough ask.
    — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 13 June 2023
  • Her mix of upbeat Afropop with a soulful vocal register brought her to the mainstream.
    — Delisa Shannon, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Over the past several weeks, conservative figures ranging from the fringe to the mainstream have been priming their audiences to declare fraud should the election not go their way.
    — Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024

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